bourrée

From French bourrée.

bourrée (plural bourrées)

1. A baroque dance of French origin, common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century.
2. A piece of music in character with such a dance.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 309:

     Stationed just outside the main gate, the band is hammering away at ‘Rule Britannia’ and the bourrée from the ‘Royal Fireworks Music.’

bourrée

1. feminine singular of the past participle of bourrer

bourrée

1. feminine singular of bourré

bourrée f (plural bourrées)

1. (music) bourrée
2. (now rare) faggot (bundle of sticks); torch

• “bourrée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ébourre, ébourré